Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Noah Levine
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  1. If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him... - Paulo Coelho

  2. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  3. The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. - Bill Hicks

  4. Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. - Dodie Smith

  5. It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love. - Sigmund Freud

More Quotes By Noah Levine
  1. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

  2. God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

  3. The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

  4. The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

  5. Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

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